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Welcome to the USAID Global Health Mini-University Webpage
2009 Global Health Mini-University
Friday, October 09, 2009

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• Schedule at a Glance - MS Excel file

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Details of the Event

Date:	Friday, October 09, 2009
Place:	The George Washington University Cloyd Heck Marvin Center 800 21st Street Washington, DC 20052
Time:	8:00 AM - 9:00 AM : Check-In 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM : Session I 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM : Session II 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM : Session III 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM : Brown Bag Session 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM : Session IV 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM : Knowledge Extravaganza

Sessions and Facilitators

Below is the list of the state-of-the-art technical sessions and facilitators that will be featured in the upcoming Mini-University. For a more detailed list, click on sessions or one of the links below.

To view the Schedule at a Glance, click here.

Continuing Education Units are indicated in parentheses following the course title (e.g., Postabortion Care 101 (0.1 CEU))

Cross-Cutting

1. Beyond lip service: Tools for challenging gender norms and understanding sexuality in health programs
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Session I
   Instructor(s): Doris Bartel
   

2. Big footprints:Disaster or Development in Rebuilding Afghanistan
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Session III
   Instructor(s): Anne Peterson
   

3. Bigger, Better, Faster, Cheaper: How Mobile Technology is Transforming Health Programs
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Brown Bag Session
   Instructor(s): Adam Slote, Peggy  D'Adamo
   

4. Boots and Birkenstocks: Can civil-military cooperation improve global health?
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Session I
   Instructor(s): Gene Bonventre
   

5. Everything you want to know and more about the USAID Budget Process
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Session IV
   Instructor(s): Robin  Boyer
   

6. Finding Your Way: USAID Career Development Panel
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Brown Bag Session
   Instructor(s): Angela Weaver, Jeff Spieler, Ben Gustafson, Marie Ahmed
   

7. Gender: From a term to an integrated approach- Lessons learned from current USAID health projects
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Session I
   Instructor(s): Mary Kincaid, Constance Newman
   

8. Going the last mile: How can we achieve “healthcare information for all”? Knowledge for Health (K4Health)
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Session II
   Instructor(s): Tara Sullivan
   

9. Integration through Segmentation: Customizing Suppy Chain for Improved Public Health outcomes
   Location: To Be Determined
   Time period: Session I
   Instructor(s): Linda Allain, John Durgavich, Jennifer Antilla
   

10. Making the Grade: Using the Evidence to Support School-Based Sex Education
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Karah Fazekas, Dhianaraj  Chetty
    

11. Mission Impossible? A mental health impact assessment in Rwanda’s newly liberalized coffee industry
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Jutta Tobias
    

12. Rites and Rights—Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs, Kakenya  Ntaiya
    

13. The Promise of the President’s Global Health Initiative
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Brown Bag Session
    Instructor(s): Gloria  Steele
    

14. The road from where to why: better data and better decision support tools using GIS and geographic data
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): John Spencer, Andrew Inglis
    

15. What Congress Wants from You: Think Strategically, Spend Wisely, Achieve Sustainable Results
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Brown Bag Session
    Instructor(s): Michelle Sumilas
    

16. Whose life is it anyway?--Social/Behavior Change Communication
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Antje Becker-Benton
    

Family Planning and Maternal Health Integration

17. Something for Everyone! FP and MNCH Integration
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Catharine McKaig, Elaine Charurat
    

Family Planning and Reproductive Health

18. A is for 'Access' - increasing the use of long-acting methods
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Brad  Lucas
    

19. Addressing poverty-equity in health program design, implementation and evaluation
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Karen Foreit
    

20. Contraceptive R&D – What’s New, What’s Around the Corner and What Still Remains to be Developed?
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Jeff Spieler
    

21. Credit is an Engine of Growth: Expanding Quality Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services in the Private Sector
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Meaghan Smith
    

22. CSR and NGO-Corporate Partnerships: Building the Business Case and Leveraging Corporate Networks for RH/FP and Women’s Health
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Brown Bag Session
    Instructor(s): David  Wofford, Shawn MacDonald
    

23. Expanding Access to Injectable Contraceptives - the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs)
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): John Stanback, Victoria Graham
    

24. Family Planning:  The Elevator Speech
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Scott Radloff
    

25. GET FOCUSED on FP/HIV Integration: 10 Steps to Improve Services
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Susan Adamchak
    

26. Universal access for postabortion family planning--Failing women no longer!
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Douglas  Huber , Erin  Mielke
    

27. Voices From the Field: Muslim Religious Leaders Promoting Benefits of Family Planning
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Maureen Norton, Leah  Freji, Milka  Dinev
    

28. Whose Choice is it Anyway? Informed Choice Re-Examined
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Rebecka Lundgren, Jewel  Gausman
    

Health Systems

29. Counterfeit and Substandard Medicines- A Clear and Present Danger
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Veerle Coignez
    

30. Global leadership and development—To liberate Sisyphus: myth or potential
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Tim Allen, Joan Mansour
    

31. Improving Care for Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) – The ART Framework hypothesis testing in Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Uganda
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Larissa Jennings
    

32. Managing for a Motivated and Productive Health Workforce - What Does it Take?
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Lois Schaefer, Jim McCaffery
    

33. Only for the Wealthy? Reaching the Poor with Quality Private Health Sector Services through Social Franchising and Output-Based Aid
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Ruth Berg, Cynthia Eldridge, Gael O'Sullivan
    

34. Resource Tracking for Financial Accountability and Overall Aid Efficiency – The Future of NHA
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Steve  Musau
    

35. Strengthening information systems for community based HIV programs
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Heidi Reynolds
    

36. Taking the pulse of policy – a participatory approach to assessing policy implementation
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Suneeta Sharma, Anita Bhuyan
    

37. Uganda's User Fee Policy: To Have or Have Not
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): John Osika, Ellie  Brown
    

HIV/AIDS

38. Add an ounce of prevention to that pound of cure: Integrating HIV Prevention into care and treatment settings
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Pam Bachanas
    

39. HIV and Nutrition: Evidence, Emerging Issues, and Promising Practices
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Tim Quick, Amie Heaps
    

40. Integrating Mental Health Services in HIV care programs: the time has come for a more holistic healing approach of HIV infected persons
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Jude Awuba
    

41. Join the Moment: PMTCT as a Means to Create a Generation Free of HIV
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Allison Spensley
    

42. Junkies, Hookers, and Queers – Oh My! Most at Risk Populations for HIV programming
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Clancy  Broxton
    

43. Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Status: Planning HIV Testing and Counseling Programs to Reach Prevention, Care and Treatment Goals
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Alison Surdo
    

44. More than a Snip: Challenges and Progress in Integrating Male Circumcision into HIV Prevention Programs
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Kelly Curran, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli
    

45. OK, Culture Matters, So Now What? Culture and HIV/AIDS Revisited
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Suzanne  Leclerc- Madlala
    

46. Prevention first! The Challenge of Effective Combination HIV Prevention
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Jim Shelton, Shanti Conly
    

47. Rah! Rah! Rah! Cheering for Children: Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children and what it means in developing countries
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Gretchen Bachman, Colette  Bottini
    

48. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Advances and Updates in HIV Treatment
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Robert Ferris, Tom Minior
    

Infectious Diseases

49. INFLUENZA – It was not if but when, and the when is NOW!
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Murray Trostle
    

50. Malaria: Something old, something new, something borrowed…
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Eric  Tongren
    

51. Malaria: Scaling up Home-based Management for Children
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Ciro Franco
    

52. Seven Nasty Little Buggers We Can Prevent – Integrated Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Angela Weaver, Eric  Ottesen
    

53. TB 101: A breath of fresh air on an old topic
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Sangeeta Mookherji
    

54. Zzz, zzz, zzz ...splat: Effective BCC for Malaria Prevention
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Marc Boulay
    

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

55. From PPH to PE/E: Targeting another major killer of mothers and newborns
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Linda  Bartlett, Barbara Rawlins
    

56. Immunization: a
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Robert  Steinglass
    

57. It's not just about children anymore: innovations in maternal and child health (MCH) programming
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session IV
    Instructor(s): Lily  Kak
    

58. Lipid-based nutrient supplements and prevention of malnutrition
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Camila   Chaparro
    

59. Networking to Improve Fistula Treatment in Nigeria
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Erin  Mielke, Evelyn Landry
    

60. Nutrition and Food Security
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Laura Birx
    

61. Postnatal/partum care: It is all about timing and contents for the mother and the baby
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session II
    Instructor(s): Joseph  Johnson
    

62. Sustainable, successful community health worker programs
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session III
    Instructor(s): Lauren Crigler, Troy Jacobs, Allison Wittcoff
    

63. Why dealing with #2 is #1 for Maternal and Child health: Innovative Approaches to Hygiene and Sanitation Improvement
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Session I
    Instructor(s): Julia Rosenbaum, Merri  Weinger
    

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